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Bizarre blotter: Man's penis stolen while he slept and other unusual crimes

Karen Workman / Digital First Media

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01/08/2013 08:37:19 AM MST

The world is a strange place. Need proof? Today's headlines include odd crimes ranging from penis thieves in China to a Brooklyn man whose hatred for hipsters is taken to the extreme. Of course, there's a good deal of dumb criminal behavior, too.

Infidelity gone awry: Man's penis stolen while he slept

Though 41-year-old Fei Lin of China denies taking part in any affairs, police believe the people responsible for castrating him while he slept were jealous lovers of women - not just one, but several - whom he was having affairs with. The penis thieves broke in, put a bag over his head and took a quick slice at his anatomy. "I was so shocked I didn't feel a thing - then I saw I was bleeding and my penis was gone," Lin said, according to a Huffington Post report. His penis has not been located and neither have the thieves.

A 40-year-old Michigan man was jailed after he returned to the McDonald's location police say he robbed in October; this time, all he wanted was some food. Albert Haney Rucks, 41, was in the restaurant's drive-through on Saturday when an employee recognized him. He now faces a 10-year felony charge of larceny.

Colorado community honors elk shot by officer with vigil: We loved that elk and he loved us!

Police in Boulder, Colo. are investigating the shooting of an elk by a police officer pending an emotional outpouring from the community that had nicknamed the beast "Big Boy." Two officers have been placed on leave after the New Year's Day shooting - police say the officer shot the elk because it appeared injured, but neighbors say that's not the case. Meanwhile, hundreds of Coloradans attended a vigil for the elk, singing Amazing Grace and telling a newspaper reporter that neighbors considered the elk their "guardian." "Tonight's a celebration, a celebration of the elk," said vigil organizer Jim Riemersma. "We loved him. But I think he loved us, too ..."

Cops behaving badly: Some crimes are just too much fun for even police to refrain

Massachusetts police thought they'd find a gaggle of teens at fault for egging a house in December. Instead, they found officers from another department. The Framingham police's egg-tossing investigation turned up three police officers from nearby Newton, who'd egged the house of their superior officer and Newton police sergeant. The egg-throwers claimed it was a "prank, a joke between friends." The sergeant whose house was egged is handling the "prank" internally, reports the Associated Press.

Hipster hatred prompts Brooklyn man to make more than 400 phony 911 calls

Think curmudgeon is a title you have to wait until you're elderly to get? Nah. Just call the police a few hundred times falsely complaining about the noise your hipster neighbors make, and you'll get there. Louis Segna is only 51 and that's how he earned the title, bestowed upon him by the New York Post. Segna, a Williamsburg resident, was arrested Thursday after police finally caught on to his 911 ploy; Segna admitted to fabricating some stories to get the police to respond more quickly. "He's crazy, not just a little crazy like people in Williamsburg, but he's nuts," a local shopkeeper told the Post.

It's become harder and harder to be a successful thief - now you've got to worry about the products you steal turning on you. That's what happened to a Detroit man who stole an iPhone in mid-Michigan on Sunday. The phone's rightful owner activated his "Find My iPhone" app, which tracked the phone to a Buffalo Wild Wing's location. Police found the suspect and the phone inside. The suspect, 26, faces a four-year felony larceny charge.
- via the Morning Sun

A couple really stupid things to do while drunk

Feeling bad about something you did that perhaps you should not have the last time you got really drunk? Here are some things other people did that are bound to make you feel better about your transgressions: In Colorado, 51-year-old Robert Elmar Taylor - who had a warrant out for his escape from the Department of Corrections - stole an ambulance and took it for a joyride. He only made it six blocks and "made some statement about being cold," a police officer told the Denver Post. Another man in Pennsylvania, 54-year-old Robert Charles Smith Jr., took his own truck for a joyride - through a park that happened to be next to the police station. The mud he turned up in the park left a "definitive" path to where he later parked his truck and was promptly found by police. He now faces a variety of charges.